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Root [Boost Mobile] kernel source code won't build

I managed to replicate shinru's lack of sucess, it looks like ZTE either managed to corrupt their code or have uploaded the wrong version.

When I first started messing with ZTE devices I discovered that all of the source code they had put out all needed to be fixed (mostly typos, missing brackets and stray #'s) before they would even compile.

ZTE have totally no idea about version control when it come to source code, we discovered with the Blade that once they had shipped the device they would just start hacking away at the kernel code for the next device, with no thought to maintaining backwards compatibility.

We managed to engage ZTE and get some working Blade kernel source code out of them, but their engineers had to go back and re-write the kernel source.. we never got the actual original source but a 're-creation' of it, and even then it did not support all the hardware sub variants out there.

The Blade2 is another great example of this, since ZTE uses different screens & digitizers when building the devices, and the stock kernel works with every combination of screen/digitizer but the source they shipped does not.

I'd not expect the source for the next device in ZTE's lineup to work with the Warp, since we believe they are still operating in the same method.

The Warp is more simular to the new ZTE tablets (V11A, V5, V71A) might be worth checking out their source.

I totally failed to pick up a ZTE Warp when I was out in the US last year due to illness, but I'm planning on going to a conference next month in Miami, so I'll see if I can locate one then.
 
So how much of the source for the blade was messed up? Or is there a place you could point us to, to start corrections?
 
o.O wow sebastion is back :D

Welcome back m8, you missed quite a bit :p *cough*cm7*cough*

Anywho.. well this is quite unfortunate.. yeah not only do they have problems with the source code their method of distribution is really bad.. like we had trouble just unzipping it lol. I guess because zte isn't being a good company we won't have the awesome options for the phone and its capabilities..
 
shinru2004 said:
will a honeycomb source work on gingerbread?
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lolwut, that was kinda random.. but I don't think so.. what do you mean?

Also if I get 3 or more replies saying yes to a petition from this post I'll make a dedicated petition thread for release of source code and ssend an email with sebastion's help to zte concerning the release of the full code cuz I don't wanna do that unless there's an actual interest for it
 
Snake X said:
lolwut, that was kinda random.. but I don't think so.. what do you mean?

Also if I get 3 or more replies saying yes to a petition from this post I'll make a dedicated petition thread for release of source code and ssend an email with sebastion's help to zte concerning the release of the full code cuz I don't wanna do that unless there's an actual interest for it
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Hell yea we need working source code, phone would be 10x better if we had it, look at what kouma did for the prevail. That things a beast running his kernel.

Oh what sebastian was talking about the V11a and the other tablets are all 3.0 honeycomb
 
Can we get the email addresses that Sebastian had? It doesn't seem like support deals with development
 
downthemachine said:
Can we get the email addresses that Sebastian had? It doesn't seem like support deals with development
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I'm kinda reluctant to give that out, its a mailing list, mostly of rom developers but it has a few of ZTE's internal staff on it who have been very helpful in the past. Shinru has posted the question to it, I'm going to follow up it, in the past they have been quite responsive, I'd not want to loose the good will by having it filled with a barrage of emails..
 
downthemachine said:
So how much of the source for the blade was messed up? Or is there a place you could point us to, to start corrections?
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gawd, most of that info is lost in the mists of time now.. they did give us source originaly and then seems quite surprised when it didn't even compile I think we went through 3 versions of it before we could get it to work and even then it was not 100%

If you search github for 'zte blade kernel' you will see a number of different people have been hacking at it over the years.. its kinda of a mess these days..
 
Sebastian404 said:
I'm kinda reluctant to give that out, its a mailing list, mostly of rom developers but it has a few of ZTE's internal staff on it who have been very helpful in the past. Shinru has posted the question to it, I'm going to follow up it, in the past they have been quite responsive, I'd not want to loose the good will by having it filled with a barrage of emails..
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and 'the question' would be..? and posted where?
 
shinru2004 said:
Oh what sebastian was talking about the V11a and the other tablets are all 3.0 honeycomb
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You never know what ZTE leave behind in their code, you might want to see if the device files for the arthur are included and do a diff with the official release see if they are different..
 
Ok so I'm giving it another go, but I need to make sure I extracted it right lol.. I downloaded it in windows, extract each zip file (because 7-zip or hjsplit wouldnt recognize .001-.007.zip) to get the .001-.007.7z files. Then I took 7zip to unzip the final .tar file and took winrar to untar that file. Please tell me I did this right lol
 
Snake X said:
Ok so I'm giving it another go, but I need to make sure I extracted it right lol.. I downloaded it in windows, extract each zip file (because 7-zip or hjsplit wouldnt recognize .001-.007.zip) to get the .001-.007.7z files. Then I took 7zip to unzip the final .tar file and took winrar to untar that file. Please tell me I did this right lol
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I wouldn't Untar til you are in Linux. There are case sensitive files in there, and Windows doesn't know what case sensitive means. If it sees two files with the same name, it will try to overwrite them, even through one maybe capitalized
 
yeah thats what I was thinking. Btw can you give me your md5 on the .tar?

edit: mine says: 77205d5fc50b521a736c5d050ab83d4c N860-kernel.tar
 
Snake X said:
yeah thats what I was thinking. Btw can you give me your md5 on the .tar?

edit: mine says: 77205d5fc50b521a736c5d050ab83d4c N860-kernel.tar
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Sorry I'm working, but I could do it tonight, like 9 hours from now if ya don't mind waiting
 
Did you get it to build?


Sent from my iPhone, tether to my ZTE Warp using Tapatalk
 
Oh, I havn't been on linux.. next time i go into it ill try to build it.. what's the full command I need to do for it? Im sure theres switches ill be missing if I try to do it
 
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